Niall vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Niall Williams

1:11:55 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1049th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Paul Carter-Bell

1:09:18 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
440th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Niall: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Paul: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
NiallPauledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Niall and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Niall: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 29%).Paul: strongest on Lunges (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 59%).

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Part Niall: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 29% 59%
Push 62% 90%
Pull 53% 78%
BBJ 77% 82%
Row 73% 71%
Carry 54% 70%
Lunges 84% 98%
Wall balls 86% 72%
Roxzone 81% 81%
Runs 82% 91%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Niall Paul
SkiErg 29% 59%
Sled push 62% 90%
Sled pull 53% 78%
Burpee broad jump 77% 82%
Row 73% 71%
Farmers carry 54% 70%
Sandbag lunges 84% 98%
Wall balls 86% 72%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 81%
Runs (8 km) 82% 91%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Niall · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:11:55
2:575:023:212:393:404:433:334:243:354:433:402:013:264:064:575:1710:00
Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:09:18
4:204:263:442:204:004:163:564:194:144:374:041:554:083:164:236:035:25
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Niall · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 29:09 running, 32:55 at the stations and 10:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:17).Below, Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 32:48 running, 31:13 at the stations and 5:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:03).

See the numbers
Part Niall · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:57 4:20
SkiErg 5:02 4:26
Run 2 3:21 3:44
Sled push 2:39 2:20
Run 3 3:40 4:00
Sled pull 4:43 4:16
Run 4 3:33 3:56
Burpee broad jump 4:24 4:19
Run 5 3:35 4:14
Row 4:43 4:37
Run 6 3:40 4:04
Farmers carry 2:01 1:55
Run 7 3:26 4:08
Sandbag lunges 4:06 3:16
Run 8 4:57 4:23
Wall balls 5:17 6:03
Roxzone 10:00 5:25
Finish 1:11:55 1:09:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Niall Paul Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:11:55 1:11:55 level
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